Electric boogaloo

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Electric Boogaloo is the name of the dance group and the name of a dance style. The group was the Electronic Boogaloo Lockers who in 1978 changed their name to the Electric Boogaloos. This group was influential in helping to popularize the Street dance forms of (Electric) Boogaloo, Waving and Popping, and such moves as the twist-o flex and the Back Slide (mistakenly referred to as the Moon Walk). When the group performed for the first time on TV in November 1978, they were introduced as "Jeff Kutash's Dance'n Machine doing the Boogaloo". This influenced the local New York dancers to refer to popping as the Electric Boogie and whereas in South Central Los Angeles local dancers referred to popping as Pop-Lock (or poplocking). Both of these terms are examples of how geography changes the name of the dance known as popping.

The Electronic Boogaloo Lockers later known as the Electric Boogaloos was founded in Fresno by Tick'n Will Green, Darnel "Twist-o Don" McDowell and Sammy "Boogaloo Sam" Solomon in 1977. "electric boogaloo".cite web | title=Underground Dance Masters: Final history of a Forgotten Era™ | author=Thomas Guzman-Sanchez | work=Documentary | url=http://www.electricboogaloo.com/ | accessdate=2006-04-28]

Today, "boogaloo" is used as a synonym for the dance name electric boogaloo. Electric boogaloo is a part of the overall dance called Popping.

Moves

;Hip rolls;Chest rolls;Neck rolls;Leg rolls;Twist-o-flex;Neck-o-flex;Old man;Twist-o-flex;Romeo twist;Walk-out;Boogaloo shootdowns

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